Stop Keeping Healthy Kids Home From School
Policies that require contacts of those with COVID-19 to quarantine are doing a lot of harm for little benefit.
When America experiences a COVID surge, an increase in safety measures is expected, and wise. When a surge passes, we should decrease those measures. We have repeatedly failed to do so in schools, and children deserve better. In particular, school policies that keep healthy children home need to be relaxed—and soon.
Current advise people with COVID-19 that they can return to society (wearing a mask) after five days of isolation if they’re feeling better. Unvaccinated people who have a. Many preschools, where kids cannot yet be vaccinated and some can’t mask, continue to quarantine whole classes for 10 days when there is one case in a room.
